But because the idea of private property has been permitted to override with its     selfishness the common good of humanity, it does not follow that there are no limits     within which that idea can function for the general convenience and advantage.

    Which of the following is most likely to weaken the argument?

1. All the people of the society should progress at an equitable rate and there should be no disparities and private property does bring about a tremendous disparity.
2. One should not strive for the common good of humanity at all, instead one should be     concerned with maximizing one’s own wealth.
3. One should learn from the experiences of former communists nations and should not repeat their mistakes at all.
4. Even prosperous capitalist countries like the USA have their share of social

The writer can only be fertile if he renews himself and he can only renew himself if his soul is constantly enriched by fresh experience.

    Which of the following is most likely to support the above thought?

1. Only out of fresh experience can the writer get germs for new writing.
2. The writer can meet new people.
3. The writer must see new places.
4. None of these

Unless you devote your whole life to it, you will never learn to speak the language of another country to perfection; you will never know its people and its literature with complete intimacy. Which of the following is likely to undermine the above argument?

I have been studying it, consciously and subconsciously, for forty years and I still find men unaccountable; people I know intimately can surprise me by some action     of which I never thought them capable of, or by the discovery of some trait exhibit a side of themselves that I never even suspected.

    The idea in this sentence can be best summarized as

1. Men are inconsistent and therefore one should not be confident even about one’s closest    
2. Men are unpredictable, one can never tell what do next, hence one should be very careful in one’s dealings.
3. No matter how closely you know somebody there still exists an unknown facet of his    
4. None of these

Now the audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members. If these were graded from A to Z, decreasing with succeeding letters to the zero of the hysterical shop girl, I should say its mental capacity would come around about the letter O. According to the above statements,